Kate Lohnes (Kathleen Kenedy Lohnes) was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2017 and 2018. She attends the University of Iowa, intending to graduate in May 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing with minors in philosophy and studio arts. She is also the author of a collection of self-published poetry entitled Stockholm Syndrome 17 (2016).

Battles of Saratoga, in the American Revolution, closely related engagements in the fall of 1777. The Battles of Saratoga are often considered together as a turning point of the war in favour of the Americans. The failure of the American invasion of Canada in 1775–76 had left a large surplus of…